Avast's CCleaner Free Windows Application Infected With Malware (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:01AM from the security-woes dept.

Reader Tinfoil writes: Cisco Talos announces that malware cleaning app, CCleaner, has been infected with malware for the past month. Version 5.33 of the CCleaner app offered for download between August 15 and September 12 was modified to include the Floxif malware, according to a report published by Cisco Talos a few minutes ago. Cisco Talos believes that a threat actor might have compromised Avast's supply chain and used its digital certificate to replace the legitimate CCleaner v5.33 app on its website with one that also contained the Floxif trojan. The company said more 2.27 million had downloaded the compromised version of CCleaner.

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Re:CCleaner wasn't malware all along? by CaptainDork · 2017-09-18 02:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

It's not an anti-malware program.
It's an optimizer.

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Re:CCleaner wasn't malware all along? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-09-18 03:36 · Score: 5, Insightful

IT IS NOT ANTI-MALWARE, IT IS A DUPE FILE REMOVER, CACHE FILE CLEANER, UTILITY TOOL FOR REMOVING STUBBORN UNINSTALLERS THAT BROKE, ETC.
You fucking idiots want to keep saying it's AV because you don't seem to know a god damn thing about it lol. "Oh it's a terrible security model" - On Windows? MORON.
WHINY PETULANT SLASHDOT BITCHES WHO THINK THEY'RE EXPERTS WITHOUT READING A GOD DAMN THING, LOL